8 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



We have during the past summer graded a large tract of 

 land between Grand and Tower Grove Avenues and Shaw 

 and McRee Avenues, at a cost of $21,851.43, and have thus 

 placed 16,000 front feet of very desirable residence prop- 

 erty in condition to be disposed of. The expenditure has 

 greatly improved the appearance of the entire tract of about 

 100 acres, and the results have already been felt in the in- 

 creased demand for abutting property so that we hope to be 

 able in the spring to dispose of a portion if not all of the 

 tract to a syndicate or to builders. 



We have, as usual, been called upon for large expenditures 

 for street improvements, as follows; the amounts having 

 been charged to real estate as betterments. 



Thurman Avenue . 

 Old Manchester Road 

 McRee Avenue 

 Tower Grove Avenue . 

 City Block 4941 . . 



Paving $ 1,823.79 



Paving 20,342.19 



Paving 4,359.91 



Sidewalk 534.24 



Alley 1,393.28 



$28,453.41 



The demands for street improvements will call for addi- 

 tional expenditures during the year 1909 estimated as follows : 



Shaw Avenue 3,112 front feet . . . $18,672.00 



Lawrence Street 350 front feet . . . 1,800.00 



Klemm Avenue 2,000 front feet . . . 10,000.00 



Vandeventer Avenue . . . . 2,000 front feet . . . 8,000.00 



$38,472.00 



We have about completed a large addition and extension 

 to the library and office building (the old Shaw residence 

 removed from Seventh and Locust Streets) in the Garden 

 grounds and fronting on Tower Grove Avenue; it is an 

 imposing and well built fire-proof structure, three stories in 

 height, and an ornament to the Garden. The total cost of the 

 improvement will be about $54,000.00, of which $41,014.00 

 has already been paid. No other expenditures have been 

 made at the Garden other than for its maintenance, at a 

 total cost of $47,000.00. 



